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News Fri Sep 18 2009
Bookmarks
- For all of our readers on LibraryThing: Amazon is forcing some draconian changes regarding links to other booksellers. (Take note that all links on the Book Club page are to IndieBound to show our love and support for local independent booksellers.)
- Stephen Elliott on a new form of book promotion: The Adderall Diaries Lending Library.
- If you didn't get to be a part of said Lending Library, you can still read an excerpt of the book at The Collagist. [via]
- Claire Zulkey's book has a song.
- Penguin reports that Nami Mun's Miles from Nowhere has been selected as one of Booklist's Top Ten First Novels.
- Local authors Joe Meno and Mark Caro are winners of this year's Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association Awards. Meno won in the fiction category for his novel The Great Perhaps, while Caro won in the non-fiction category for The Foie Gras Wars.
- A profile of the Chicago Public Library at The Week Behind.
- Chicago Examiner gives some attention to the new local literary journal Somnambulist Quarterly.
- Poems by Diego Baez and Anne Winter.
- "What is Chicago," by Lawrence Joseph.
- "Why Chicago," by Ingo Schulze.
- "Walker Brothers," by Peter Orner
Have you been keeping up with Granta's online publications of new Chicago-related material?